FUTURITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does futurity mean? 

• FUTURITY (noun)
  The noun FUTURITY has 2 senses:

1. the time yet to come

2. the quality of being in or of the future

  Familiarity information: FUTURITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUTURITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time yet to come

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

future; futurity; hereafter; time to come

Hypernyms ("futurity" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "futurity"):

kingdom come (the end of time)

by-and-by (an indefinite time in the future)

offing (the near or foreseeable future)

tomorrow (the near future)

manana (an indefinite time in the future)

Derivation:

future (yet to be or coming)

future (effective in or looking toward the future)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being in or of the future

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("futurity" is a kind of...):

timing (the time when something happens)

Antonym:

pastness (the quality of being past)

presentness (the quality of being the present)

Derivation:

future ((of elected officers) elected but not yet serving)

future (yet to be or coming)

future (effective in or looking toward the future)

 Context examples 

I confess to you, my friend, that I love you and that in my airy dreams of futurity you have been my constant friend and companion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

If she had seen his face when, safe in his own room, he looked at the picture of a severe and rigid young lady, with a good deal of hair, who appeared to be gazing darkly into futurity, it might have thrown some light upon the subject, especially when he turned off the gas, and kissed the picture in the dark.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been! how eloquent, at least, were her wishes on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful confidence in futurity, against that over-anxious caution which seems to insult exertion and distrust Providence!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)